Am at the JM – January 20th 2016 Once a month, the Jewish Museum organizes AM at the JM, a salon style discussion series taking place in a coffee shop in New York on the early side of the day. This morning brought together the New York based American artist, …

[Afterward known as “Zenobia Augusta, Queen of the East.”] A.D. 250. MANY and many miles and many days’ journey toward the rising sun, over seas and mountains and deserts,—farther to the east than Rome, or Constantinople, or even Jerusalem and old Damascus,—stand the ruins of a once mighty city, scattered …

TRULY UNHAPPY are those who, laboring at their studies in order to benefit others and to make their own name famous, are hindered by infirmity and sometimes by death from carrying to perfection the works that they have begun. And it happens very often that, leaving them all but finished or in a fair way to completion, they are falsely claimed by the presumption of those who seek to conceal their asses’ skin under the honorable spoils of the lion. And although time, who is called the father of truth, sooner or later makes manifest the real state of things, …